Fourth International Conference on

Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts,

28-30 May, 20011, Lincoln, UK

Draft Schedule

updated 26 May 2011

Saturday 28 May 8.30 - 9.00

Registration, LPAC Foyer

Saturday 28 May 9.00-9.30   

Welcome and introduction to the Conference

LPAC Studio 1

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Conference Director

Professor Brian Winston, The Lincoln Professor

Saturday 28 May 9.30-10.30

LPAC Studio 1

Anita Hammer, Norway

Polyphonies of group dynamics in Spiritualist Performance.

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Saturday 28 May 10.30 – 11.00        

Break and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Saturday 28 May 11.00-13.00

Parallel sessions

Panel 1

Topic: Theatre

Venue: LPAC Studio 1

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Vijaya Subramani, UK

Rasa: Aesthetics of Belonging Unbelongingly

James McNicholas, UK

The Ritual(s) of Improvisation; A Study of Relations between the Pre-Performance Rituals of Kudiyattam and Pre-Expressive Actor Training towards Improvisational Performance

Nicholas Minns, UK

"Check It Out": A Study of Concepts of Awareness, Mindfulness and Presence in Scott Kelman's Approach to Acting

Panel 2

Topic: Trauma and Victims

Venue: LPAC Seminar Room

Chair: Jane Carr, UK

Aroosa Kanwal, UK

After 9/11: Trauma, Memory, Melancholia and National Consciousness

Maryam Kohansal, Japan

Victims of the Text,

Divya Bhatnagar, India

Let Me Live! Victim Consciousness in the novels of Toni Morrison

Saturday 28 May 13.00 – 14.00        

Lunch and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Saturday 28 May 14.00 – 16.00        

Parallel sessions

Panel 3

Topic: Crossings

Venue: LPAC Studio 1

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Marjan Yazdanpanahi

Lancaster University, UK

The Essay and Painting: A Moment of Consciousness

Narayan Krishna Prabhu, Bahrain

Advaita Vedānta and Realization of Ānanda: ‘the body of knowledge unifying Individual, Creation and Creator and the Realization of Absolute Joy’

Vytautas Zalys, Lithuania

Sound Art – Art Between Categories

Panel 4

Topic: Theatre

Venue: LPAC Seminar Room

Chair: John Aspill, UK

Peter Eversmann, The Netherlands

The Play of the Spectator

Anthony Squiers, USA

Consciousness and the Deconstruction of Time in the Works of Bertolt Brecht

Vivienne Glance, Australia

Mind in Theatre: performed consciousness in Staring at the Sun

Panel 5

Topic: Literature

Venue: LPAC Studio 3

Chair: Anita Hammer, Norway

M. S. Chezhian , India

Iconoclasm and Evolution of Consciousness: A Study of Borges, Capra and J. Krishnamurthy

Tamar Mebuke, Georgia

“From Homer and within it …” Intertextuality as a Cultural Problem.

Saturday 28 May 16.00 – 16.30        

Break and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Saturday 28 May 16.30 – 18.00        

LPAC Studio 1

KEYNOTE

Michael Mangan, University of Exeter

Acting your age and being as old as you feel: mind, body and ageing in drama, theatre and performance

Chair: Sreenath Nair, UK 

Saturday 28 May 18.00 – 20.00        

Delegates make their own dinner arrangements

Saturday 28 May 20.00                                 

Venue: LPAC Studio 1

Performance: Kriben Pillay and Vaneshran Arumugam:

Not an Angry Ape: Shakespeare’s Vision of Consciousness.

Sunday 29 May

Sunday 29 May 9.00 – 10.30

Keynote

LPAC Studio 1

Michael Earley, Rose Bruford College, UK

Stanislavski and the New Consciousness in Early 20^th-Cenury Russia

Chair: Arya Madhavan, UK

Sunday 29 May 10.30-11.00 

Break and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Sunday 29 May 11.00-13.00 

Parallel sessions

Panel 6

Topic: Art

Venue: LPAC Studio 1

Chair: James McNicholas, UK

Robin Hawes, UK

Art & Consciousness Studies: Catching ourselves in the act of perception

Renate Nisi, Australia

Making Sens-ible: the role of consciousness and sensations in art making.

Özge Gündem, Turkey

Artistic Images of our Daily Lives

Panel 7

Topic: Theatre

Venue: LPAC Seminar Room

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Flavio Lofego Encarnação, Brazil

Rio Branco´s Evolving Culture of Ayahuasca Performance

Tui Nicola Clery, New Zealand

Performing feminism through community theatre in contemporary Fiji: Confronting the female imaginary and celebrating lesbian relationships, the ‘F Word’ performance as a challenge to public consciousness

Christophe Collard, Belgium

Doing Digitalism: On the Cognitive Performativity of New Media-Hybrids

Sunday 29 May 13.00 – 14.00           

Lunch and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Sunday 29 May 14.00 – 16.00

Parallel sessions

Panel 8

Topic: Music

Venue: LPAC Studio 1

Chair: David Clarke, UK

Priscila Gambary Freire, Eduardo Conde Garcia, Brazil

Anxiety in Musical Performance

Elena Esteban Muñoz, Spain

Selective Consciousness: Use and Avoidance in Musical Memorized Performance.

Carol Chambers, UK

Experiences of time and space in the musical improvisations of psychiatric patients.

Panel 9

Topic: Ethics and Morality

Venue: LPAC Seminar Room

Chair: Donald Pulford, UK

Adriana Ruta, Poland

Truth-seeking and self-deception: the question of morality in Iris Murdoch’s novels.

Sanjay Kumar, India

Dramatising an evolving consciousness: theatre with Nithari’s children

John Ediri, Nigeria

Theatre for Development and Infant Mortality in Nigeria

Panel 15

Topic: Crossings

Venue: LPAC Studio 3

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Narayan Krishna Prabhu, Kingdom of Bahrain

Cit {Chit} ‘The Self-Luminous Principle’ or Active Consciousness the Core: The Pathway

John Aspill, UK

Cyber-consciousness good, bad or indifferent?

Sunday 29 May 16.00 – 16.30           

Break and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Sunday 29 May 16.30 – 18.00

LPAC Studio 1

KEYNOTE

Gregory Tague, USA

Moral Sense, Conscience and Consciousness in the English Novel

Chair: Siân Adiseshiah

Sunday 29 May 18.00 - 20.00           

Delegates make their own dinner arrangements

Sunday 29 May
Performance

Venue: LPAC Theatre

Lucie Petrusova and Karla Shacklock

‘Nobody’ and ‘Beyond’

Monday 30 May

Monday 30 May 9.00-10.30

LPAC Studio 1

Keynote Lecture

Klaus Volkamer, Germany

Experimental studies for the detection of collective effects in theatre-science

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

Monday 30 May 10.30 – 11.00         

Break and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Monday 30 May 11.00-13.00

Parallel Sessions

Karla Shacklock and Company:

Paper about the Performance and further Discussion

Venue: LPAC Studio 3

Panel 10

Topic: Theatre

Venue: LPAC Studio 1

Chair: Susan Mower, UK

Clayton Drinko, USA

Viola Spolin’s Self: Cognitive Neuroscience and Spolin’s Theater Games

Donna Soto-Morettini, UK

The Cognitive Architecture of Performance

Martin Curtis, UK

Cognitive approaches to the rehearsal process

Panel 12

Topic: Literature

Venue: LPAC Seminar Room

Chair: TBC

Susan Green, Australia

Consciousness, Distributed Cognition, and The Waves”

Verita Sriratana, UK

 “Carrying consciousness like a feather on the top, marking the direction, not controlling it”: Virginia Woolf and Buddhist Consciousness

Daphne Grace, Bahamas 

‘A beast or a god’: Margaret Atwood’s vision of life after the posthuman flood.

Monday 30 May 13.00 – 14.00         

Lunch and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Monday 30 May 14.00 – 16.00

Parallel Sessions

Panel 11

Topic: Music

Venue: LPAC Studio 1

Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK

David Clarke, UK

Consciousness and sound: listening to Indian philosophy

Herbert Pimlott, Canada

 “‘No Future for You’: ‘Crisis Music’ and Political Ephemera in Reconstructing the ‘Structure of Feeling’ of Unemployment, Class and Gender, 1978-83”

Panel 13

Topic: Intercultural points of contact

Venue: LPAC Seminar Room

Chair: Kelly Jones

Chen Qi, Italy

Physiognomic consciousness as a collective consciousness in Chinese Portraiture tradition

Pascal Nadal, Mauritius

Establishing truth in dramatic representation: navigating between authorial ambiguity and popular perception. The case of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.

Orhan Soylemez & Damla Bulbuloglu, Turkey

Aytmatov's The White Steamship: The Reflections of the Consciousness based on Heidegger's concept of Dasein

Panel 14

Topic: Theatre

Venue: LPAC Studio 3

Chair: Jessica Bockler

Ulla Kallenbach, Denmark

Imagination as a mode of consciousness: imagining absence on stage

Alla Sosnovskaya, Israel

Theatre Convention: Innovations or Lessons from the Past

Maria Granic-White USA

Man’s Theatrical Instinct: The Unconscious Become Conscious

Monday 30 May

16.00-16.30

Break and Book Stalls

LPAC Studio 2

Monday 30 May

16.30 – 17.00

Christi Farina: Film and Discussion

LPAC Theatre

Monday 30 May

17.00 – 19.00

Workshop with Jessica Bockler

Monday 30 May 19.00 onwards:  Delegates make their own dinner arrangements